I feel more confident when pressing on with a FWD car vs a RWD car, but the RWD cars have always seemed more "fun". If the tail hangs out slightly when pushing it round a corner on a country lane then you get it back in line, its all very exciting and gets your heart going, but it doesn't feel as safe as finding the edge of your available grip in a FWD car.
Oh totally, hence my point, on track completely, with low risk then RWD, its by its nature closer to a more problematic position to solve, so it will get your heart racing, thats the bodies reaction to a dangerous scenario.
I guess its the personal acceptable behaviour point for driving on the roads. Is it acceptable to have the tail out a bit when driving on the roads. To me no. I know a lot here will not agree, but personally I see anything where the car is basically requiring correction to be fully in control as beyond acceptable for public roads. Its a risk, albeit low, but its a risk, one that 99.99999% of the time will be fine, but that one time where maybe another event happens, so such as some mud being on the road as well, so that minor tail out suddenly become a full spin across the opposite side of the road is the point when a little fun can go far beyond the fun any more.
Oddly from my forays into RWD the lower powered slower cars were the more fun ones than the higher powered (I have never driven a genuine high power, say 500+ BHP RWD) ones. Its the reason behind the GT86 if you look back to the thought process, a RWD, relatively light, relatively powerful, but made "fun" by putting tyres that were not of the level you would have put into the car if aiming for a "fast" car.
It was why i got rid of my scoob when I did, so capable it means to start to trigger fun you go fast, proper fast, and then when something eventually goes wrong its going to be horrible.
The edge is easier for sure with FWD, you will start to get actual understeer and thats pretty easy to fix if your not an idiot, ie you have found the edge rather than just going silly with no understanding where that edge could be.
RWD is much harder, the line seems narrow, and the reaction of the car goes quickly from a minor issue to a far bigger one its also far harder to explore on public roads. Most people dont get any experience of this as the traction and safety systems stop them being idiots. I made a post about this some time ago, but they way a lot of people drive these powerful RWD cars now they are 100% reliant on the technology.
